Re: Future of ViewPDF

[Fabien VALLON]

On 2005-04-10 05:10:57 +0200 Christopher Culver 
<crculver@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> I discovered in the course of installing Evince, the new PDF viewer
> for GNOME, that the FreeDesktop folks now endorse the "poppler"
> PDF-management library, which is a stand-alone library created out of
> xpdf's code. It would be very sensible for ViewPDF to be based on
> that, because it will be easier than including all of xpdf's source,
> and updates (including security patches) will be more frequent. Evince
> renders the vast majority of my PDFs very well, so I think ViewPDF can
> make the change with no drawbacks.

Hi,

Yes but we need to be sure that the library won't change ( GNOME 
people always do that )
and poppler is still 0.2.
I think we have to wait for
1) ObjC++ to that too.
2) See what Apple PDFKit in Tiger will looks like ( does someone have 
links / docs about it ? )


Fabien